Tuesday, October 15, 2013

New Release - The Spymistress - Jennifer Chiaverini

Dear Readers,

For those that read Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, we were eager to see what was next for Jennifer Chiaverini.  Well with the release of Spymistress we have found out.   The story is based on life of Elizabeth Van Lew.  She was born in the south, educated in the North so when her native state succeed from the Union she went to work against the Confederate Union.

She was able to gather intelligence for the North in a wonderful and wide variety of  ways.  She used things that most people wouldn't think of and she used anyone and everyone that was willing to help, slaves, incarcerated and free.  It didn't matter to her as long as she could get her message to where it needed to be.

Even though she was called by the Northern leaders as a "true Union woman" and and inducted in the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame, very few of us have heard of her and what she did in the name of her beliefs.  Jennifer is about to change that and Elizabeth is about to take her rightful place as a hero of the Civil War.

I love this new thing that Jennifer is doing, writing about woman that changed and influenced America's history in ways we would never know about otherwise.  I hope she keep is it up for a long while.

Happy Reading

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